regarded her interestedly. As Lucia di Lammermoor, ever-distressed lady who goes mad in her attempt to sound like a flute, Mme. Dal Monte cadenzaed, bravuraed, languished, trilled, palpitated. Her hands were expressive, her figure squat, her voice limpid. Loud, long was the applause. "Cordial," the critics termed it, reserving their other adjective, "unprecedented," for dead débuts, for débuts to come.

In London

In London, the Royal Philharmonic Society gave its first concert of the season. Wilhelm Furtwängler, famed German who will fill a guest engagement with the New York Philharmonic this year (TIME, Dec. 8), was the conductor. Old is the Royal Philharmonic Society. When it opened its season 100 years ago, Beethoven's Piano Concerto in C Minor was played for the first time in England.

Offer

To the U. S. Government an offer was made last week. Mrs. Frederick S. Coolidge of Manhattan and Pittsfield, Mass., said that she would give $60,000 for the erection of a small auditorium "for the encouragement of chamber music," to be attached to the Library of Congress. She further offered to make an endowment to increase the music resources of the Library. Herbert Putnam, transmitting Mrs. Coolidge's offer to Congress for consideration, declared that, if accepted, it would fill "a long-felt need."

ART

In Jerusalem

In Jerusalem lives Mr. Abel Pann. He paints pictures, he reads the Bible. His works are hung in the Luxembourg, the Chicago Art Museum, the National Museum of Jerusalem. His thoughts are in the Holy Land. Long has he cherished in his brain the images of the kings and prophets of his people in the old time: Absalom's body, slim as a spear, twisting from the bough on which his dark hair tangled; Moses listening rapt to the voice of God. Unlike that nameless artist who exhibited a blank canvas, declaring that it showed the Israelites Crossing the Red Seathe Sea pushed back, the Israelites just passed over, the Egyptians not yet come up-Mr. Pann of Jerusalem paints the pictures that his heart perceives. He has set himself the task of illustrating the Bible. Already he has finished 125 pictures, covering Genesis and the beginning of Exodus. Said he:

"I have always felt it a reproach that almost every nation has produced its painter of the Bible except the one whose genius created that wonderful Book."

Federal Council

As it does every four years, the brain and sinew of the Protestant communions of the U. S. came all together as the Federal Council of

Keystone

SAMUEL PARKES CADMAN
"The hour has struck"

Churches of Christ in America-this year, in Atlanta, Ga.

Officers. Robert E. Speer, retiring President, opened the convention: "The last four years, in spite of doctrinal discussions, have witnessed a steady advance in the coöperative action of the churches. . . . There is no difference in view in the churches as to their main and central business of bringing human life under the lordship of Christ."

In behalf of the delegates, a Near East Relief worker presented Dr. Speer with a gavel. The worker declared this gavel had been made by children of Nazareth in a little shop across the street from the site of Joseph's carpenter shop.

The new President elected was Samuel Parkes Cadman of Brooklyn.

An Englishman, son and grandson of Methodist ministers, Dr. Cadman devoted his scholarly efforts at Richman College, London, to Philology and the Classics. He was ordained at 26, after study at Illinois Wesleyan. In his handling of his second pastorate (at Yonkers, N. Y.), he exhibited a genius for organizing that lifted him high and brought under his hand four Manhattan churches. The Brooklyn call came in 1901, to the Central Congregational Church. He is known as a pulpit orator, widely read, hard of head, a man whose breadth of information (his specialty is the Oxford Movement)

keeps abreast of his breadth of interest (his hobby is collecting antique chinaware and furniture).

Reports. The Council's Committee on Policy made its recommendations: "The need of a great evangelistic upheaval is undeniable. Why should it not come now?"

The functions of the churches "tc meet great human emergencies in their own name" had been resigned to other hands. Was this well?

The educational and research efforts of the Council should be heightened.

The coming four years would call for constant study of "the relations of our American evangelical churches to the churches of other lands"Asia, Latin America, Europe, The East.

The place of women in the work of the Council should be studied.

The Administrative Committee reported on its plans for a great national conference on the Christian way of life. Said Dr. John M. Moore of Brooklyn: "The idea has crossed the sea" (reference to England's conference at Birmingham last spring on Christian Politics, Economics and Citizenship known as Capec). Addresses. The delegates their ears to the addresses that occupied six days of sessions, morning. afternoon and night.

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Sir Willoughby Dickinson: "We must be ready to fight, pacifist though we may be. We have got to attack war as a sin . . . It is to the simple, God-fearing people we must appeal."

Professor Plato C. Durham, President of the Atlanta Christian Council: "We propose to wipe out the Mason Dixon Line from the Kingdom of Heaven. We shall Christianize our race relations."

Bishop Warren A. Candler of Atlanta: "Evangelistic Christianity is the surety of our country and the hope of the world."

Cyrus E. Woods, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Japan (in a letter): "The Japanese Exclusion Act was an international disaster of the first magnitude."

The Rev. Dr. Samuel M. Zwemer of Cairo: "Christianity and Islam face each other as rivals for world domination."

Rev. Dr. Adolf Keller of Zurich, Switzerland, and Professor Julius H. Richter of the University of Berlin ascribed the poverty of European Protestantism to disestablishment resulting from revolutions and depreciation of currencies.

Judge Florence E. Allen of the Ohio Supreme Court: "War must be outlawed if humanity is to survive." Rev. Thornton Whaling of Louis

n Presbyterian Churches: "Christ the solution of all moral and spirual problems. . . . Social reforms re the results and are truly secondFy to the spiritual mission of the urches."

I Governor William E. Sweet of olorado: "The most urgent queson before the nations of the world day is the establishment of univer l peace.".

I Rev. Rockwell H. Potter, chief of e National Council of Congregaonal Churches: "The growth of ecret organizations confessing hristian purposes and seeking to efct them by un-Christian methods nd so defeating their purpose, is a emesis upon the free churches of merica resulting from their failure o realize their essential unity." Dr. Cadman, in his "official sermon" o the Council, said that, some time in e "far future," all forms of Protesntism and Roman and Greek Catholism would be "sublimated in one reat faith." "The hour has ruck," said he, "for the condemnaon of war."

Came also William J. Bryan, made a masterly denunciation of war, submited a peace plan.

Union

Union Seminary, largest theological workshop in the U. S., famed for reondite scholarship and "heretics," has een seeking an endowment of four millions. Lately, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, noted Unionite, returned from swing around the country bearing with im a goodly portion of the sum, inluding the munificence of Benjamin Thaw of Pittsburgh. A fortnight ago, Mrs. Louise Carnegie, widow of hisoric Andrew, added $100,000 to the otal.

Ecclesiastically free, situated in one of the world's most densely populated centres of study (Upper Manhattan), sworn to a liberal policy and proud of a iberal tradition, Union has directed its appeal to "thoughtful and liberalminded people . . . at the moment when theological education is receiving the nost severe criticism within our memory."

MEDICINE

In Denmark

When a man, ridden with an incurable malady, begs his doctor to kill him, no medical man can administer this last, inexorable and most gentle medicine without risking prosecution for murder, for manslaughter. Last week a bill was introduced into the Parliament of Denmark to permit medical Danes to prescribe death "if the action is undertaken in order to release a hopelessly sick person from severe and inevitable suffering."

Fact is, many poor folk in many coun

tries fear that if they go to the hospital they will get the "black pill."

Fact also is, that in Scandinavia and in Germany it is common custom to administer fatal doses of morphine when two or more physicians agree that a case attended with extreme suffering is incurable. But a bill to legalize this practice failed in Germany three years ago.

Voiceless Speech

Before a gathering of skeptics, members of the Baltimore Medical Society, stood three voiceless men. They had been brought there by Dr. J. E. Mackenty of the Manhattan Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital to demonstrate an invention of his whereby, he claims, the voiceless may speak. These voiceless ones had been operated on for cancer of the throat; their larynxes removed. They were unable to breathe through their noses. Instead, they obtained air through holes cut in their necks. Over these air-holes they wore pads invented by Dr. Mackenty, from which tubes went up to mechanisms made in the simulacrum of the human vocal cords. A stubby tube like a pipe-stem in the mouth of each mute man enabled him to modulate the curious articulations made possible by the apparatus. mutes addressed the skeptical surgeons. Audibly, precisely, they droned commonplace words in unearthly monotones. Dr. Mackenty claims that his inven

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tion would save the lives of many who yearly refuse to undergo operations, that might save their lives, for fear of losing their speech. The surgeons, astounded, were still skeptical.

Trachoma

Trachoma is an inflammatory disease of the eye. For centuries, it has been prevalent in different parts of Asia, especially in China and the Malayan Archipelago; in Egypt and other parts of Africa; in the Balkans, Austria, Hungary, Germany and other parts of Europe. Such is its character that the man who suffers from it burrows in darkness, and lives out his life (for the disease is generally incurable) in dread of the light. Any brightness sears the nerves of the brain like molten metal. Great efforts have been made to keep the disease out of the U. S.; it has nevertheless crept in. Over 70,000 Amerindians are reported to have it. It is most common in the Alleghenies, Tennessee, North Carolina, Kentucky, Illinois. Last week, it was suggested that trachoma be made a subject of special research at the Wilmer Institute for Diseases of the Eye, now being built by the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Medical School, Baltimore, Md. Said Dr. John McMullen, trachoma expert: "It is a dreadful disease. I saw a girl once who had kept her arm over her eye for 18 years-so long that it was rigid in this position, and could not be moved."

Symposium

Because a foreigner might well mistake the football stadium for the fortress or temple of U. S. education, the editors of The New Student, intercollegiate clip-sheet, published a symposium on the stadium's significance.

The editors asked of excitable Henrik Willem Van Loon, whilom college professor. Said he: "It is really quite useless, my writing upon this subject. Whenever I open my mouth and say something about football, the answering chorus is, 'Oh well, but how could we expect a poor foreigner to understand our national game?' . . . I have nothing against the stadia (or stadiums or stadiumses, or whatever you wish to call them in an un-Greek age). This is a free world. Go ahead and build all the stadiums and hooch-factories and bawdey-houses you wish, but do not build them on the campus . . . Of course I know the usual answer; the cheering crowds, the gay sights, the strong virile he-men, idolizing the even stronger, more virile he-coach, the grand young future before the boy that makes the winning punt, admitted straightway to a prominent position as bond-chaser in Lee Higginson's wellknown counting-house . . . They [the s. v. he-men] are fed warmed-over editorials by Doc. Crane about 'Jesus on the Bleachers' and 'Saint Paul on the Field of Battle,' and this may account for the fact that they cheat with a sort of early-Christian simplicity which is almost touching ..."

The editors asked of Coach Zuppke, football teacher of Illinois University and the famed "Red" Grange. Said he: "Why should men play football?' To learn 49 Dont's which develop control of self and to develop 51 Do's which develop controlled initiative guided by the above 49 Dont's. To learn when to express oneself with abandonment and to get the habit of finishing after one has made the start. To realize as soon in life as possible that everything has its price."

Said a typical young graduate: "Football is a product of our youth as a people. It gives us an outlet for our animalism far less injurious than war. I need and enjoy that outlet ..."

Said Heywood Broun, journeyman, in ruminations after the rainy HarvardYale game of 1924: "The game must have become tied up in the minds of many with some precious symbol. Attendance was a rite. To stay away would be heretical, to leave before the end would smack of infidelism. At the moment I can think of no other activity in America, religious, social, or political, which could possibly induce so large a crowd to endure so much suffering and discomfort. . . . It is extremely useful to the world to have recurring proof that 70,000 people can all get excited about something at the same time..."

torial: "The college is at best but the reflection of the society which created it. . . . The tentacles of materialism have by imperceptible degrees come to encircle the Nation. As a phase of this change, into the college inevitably came men who had been reared in the new code. They tended to scoff at the in

Paul Thompson

JAMES ROWLAND ANGELL
Diplomatic chief

tangible benefits of learning . . . In their own interest they altered the college... founded social clubs, enlarged athletic activity, fired the publications with renewed vigor, evolved elaborate regulations for managerial appointments, stressed competition . . . It was the era of organization . . . A return to the standards of the past century is urged. . . But first the country must change. In the meantime, to attempt to arrest natural courses is vanity. . . Yet all things pass, even materialism."

Addressing himself to Yale Alumni in Rhode Island, James Rowland Angell, diplomatic chief executive of Yale University, assured his hearers that a new era was at hand in which universities would not concentrate upon the development of the student's mind to the exclusion of his other capacities. "No man has greater influence over a larger number of students than the football coach or coach of crew," said Dr. Angell; then marked the necessity for having in these spots at Yale "men of the same high type that we select as members of our academic faculty."

Duke

Suddenly from the picturesque valley town of Charlotte, N. C., came one of the most amazing announcements in the history of education, and, indeed, of philanthrophy.

James Buchanan Duke gave $40,000,000.

Each year 20%

returned to the

The remaining income is to be dis tributed according to the following percentages:

Duke University

Hospitals

Orphans (white, black)

32%

32%

10%

6%

Methodist Churches (maintaining).

Methodist Churches in North Carolina (building)

Preachers' pensions

5%

Davidson College (Presbyterian)... %
Furman Univ. (Baptist)...
Smith Univ. (colored)..

There is now no Duke University, If Trinity College at Durham, N. C will change its name to Duke, it will get the money. If not, there will be a new university in North Carolina.

The Carolinas are the beneficiaries of the trust, for there was the cradle of the Duke tobacco fortune.

Excerpts from the statement a nouncing the trust:

"I have selected Duke University as one of the principal objects of this tras because I recognize that education, wha conducted along sane and practical lise as opposed to dogmatic and theoretic lines, is, next to religion, the greated stabilizing influence.

"And I advise that the courses at thi institution be arranged first with special reference to the training of preachers, teachers, lawyers and physicians, because these are most in the public eye and by precept and example can do most to lift mankind. And, second, to instru tion in chemistry, economics and history, especially the lives of the great earr D. P because I believe that such subjects the Gr most help to develop our resources, and crease our wisdom and promote heading happiness."

A unique specification of the trust (which will be administered by 1 self-perpetuating body of fiftee composed at first of relatives and friends) is that the $40,000,000 shall be kept, as far as possible, investe in the Southern Power System. N Duke:

Symposium

Because a foreigner might well mistake the football stadium for the fortress or temple of U. S. education, the editors of The New Student, intercollegiate clip-sheet, published a symposium on the stadium's significance.

The editors asked of excitable Henrik Willem Van Loon, whilom college professor. Said he: "It is really quite useless, my writing upon this subject. Whenever I open my mouth and say something about football, the answering chorus is, 'Oh well, but how could we expect a poor foreigner to understand our national game?' . . . I have nothing against the stadia (or stadiums or stadiumses, or whatever you wish to call them in an un-Greek age). This is a free world. Go ahead and build all the stadiums and hooch-factories and bawdey-houses you wish, but do not build them on the campus. . . Of course I know the usual answer; the cheering crowds, the gay sights, the strong virile he-men, idolizing the even stronger, more virile he-coach, the grand young future before the boy that makes the winning punt, admitted straightway to a prominent position as bond-chaser in Lee Higginson's wellknown counting-house. . . They [the S. v. he-men] are fed warmed-over editorials by Doc. Crane about 'Jesus on the Bleachers' and 'Saint Paul on the Field of Battle,' and this may account for the fact that they cheat with a sort of early-Christian simplicity which is almost touching . . ."

The editors asked of Coach Zuppke, football teacher of Illinois University and the famed "Red" Grange. Said he: "Why should men play football?' To learn 49 Dont's which develop control of self and to develop 51 Do's which develop controlled initiative guided by the above 49 Dont's. To learn when to express oneself with abandonment and to get the habit of finishing after one has made the start. To realize as soon in life as possible that everything has its price."

Said a typical young graduate: "Football is a product of our youth as a people. It gives us an outlet for our animalism far less injurious than war. I need and enjoy that outlet . . .”

Said Heywood Broun, journeyman, in ruminations after the rainy HarvardYale game of 1924: "The game must have become tied up in the minds of many with some precious symbol. Attendance was a rite. To stay away would be heretical, to leave before the end would smack of infidelism. At the moment I can think of no other activity in America, religious, social, or political, which could possibly induce so large a crowd to endure so much suffering and discomfort. . . . It is extremely useful to the world to have recurring proof that 70,000 people can all get excited about something at the same time..."

Said the Amherst Student in an edi

torial: "The college is at best but the reflection of the society which created it. . . . The tentacles of materialism have by imperceptible degrees come to encircle the Nation. As a phase of this change, into the college inevitably came men who had been reared in the new code. They tended to scoff at the in

Paul Thompson

JAMES ROWLAND ANGELL
Diplomatic chief

tangible benefits of learning . . . In their own interest they altered the college . . . founded social clubs, enlarged athletic activity, fired the publications with renewed vigor, evolved elaborate regulations for managerial appointments, stressed competition . . . It was the era of organization . . . A return to the standards of the past century is urged. . . But first the country must change. In the meantime, to attempt to arrest natural courses is vanity. . . Yet all things pass, even materialism."

Addressing himself to Yale Alumni in Rhode Island, James Rowland Angell, diplomatic chief executive of Yale University, assured his hearers that a new era was at hand in which universities would not concentrate upon the development of the student's mind to the exclusion of his other capacities. "No man has greater influence over a larger number of students than the football coach or coach of crew," said Dr. Angell; then marked the necessity for having in these spots at Yale "men of the same high type that we select as members of our academic faculty."

There is now no Duke University. If Trinity College at Durham, N. C., will change its name to Duke, it will get the money. If not, there will be a new university in North Carolina.

The Carolinas are the beneficiaries of the trust, for there was the cradle of the Duke tobacco fortune.

Excerpts from the statement announcing the trust:

"I have selected Duke University as one of the principal objects of this trust because I recognize that education, when conducted along sane and practical lines as opposed to dogmatic and theoretical lines, is, next to religion, the greatest stabilizing influence.

"And I advise that the courses at this institution be arranged first with special reference to the training of preachers, teachers, lawyers and physicians, because these are most in the public eye and by precept and example can do most to uplift mankind. And, second, to instruction in chemistry, economics and history, especially the lives of the great earth, because I believe that such subjects will most help to develop our resources, increase our wisdom and promote human happiness."

A unique specification of the trust (which will be administered by a self-perpetuating body of fifteen, composed at first of relatives and friends) is that the $40,000,000 shall be kept, as far as possible, invested in the Southern Power System. Mr. Duke:

"In my study of the subject I have observed how such utilization of a natural resource which otherwise would run into waste in the sea and not remain and increase as the forest would, both gives impetus to industrial life and provides a safe and enduring investment for capital."

Gloomy?

The contest, John Jay Chapman 75. "The Aggression of Rome," continued. John Jay Chapman, graduate of Harvard, resident of Manhattan, author and publicist, is a man of intensity. energy. What he believes, he believes passionately. His right arm is off at the elbow. Few have the exact reasons for this, but it is commonly believed that, for having struck a friend (or teacher), Mr. Chapman did penance by thrusting his right arm into a blazing furnace.

Last month, Mr. Chapman addressed an open letter to Bishop Lawrence of Massachusetts, calling the attention of the latter to phrases employed by Car